MeTa comment:
"My one and only beef with the people-first language request was the added accusation that not using it is "inconsiderate". Please don't assume that anyone not using your preferred nomenclature is being inconsiderate. It's rarely, if ever,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Here's my advice to banks: Make your money on the spread between lending rates and savings rates. It's a lucrative profit center and can fund your entire operation. Stop treating every little service and convenience as an excuse to gouge more fees..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MissSquare
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Man, this thread is just about the worst I've ever seen from MetaFilter. Zadcat's original answer was a very good one for any photographer who wants their images to be more 'art' than 'snapshot'. I didn't find it pretentious at all. I also have a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Squid Voltaire, highrise
Last month
MeTa comment:
"It would help if people would answer the question and not respond to other answerers.
"Have babies" and "Don't have babies" are both valid and constructive answers. "Those people who say 'Have babies' are wrong" and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by M.C. Lo-Carb!, Sys Rq
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Can someone clue me in to the appeal of Steve Jobs? What makes him the only white male billionaire head of a multinational corporation not worth hating on?
Is it the turtlenecks? It's the turtlenecks, isn't it?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
Last month
MeTa comment:
"For what it's worth, I've noticed some subtle misandry here, but as someone upthread commented, it's everywhere in our culture these days. From the idiot man in TV commercials who gets rescued by the woman with the product you need to buy, to the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by bugbread, schyler523, grobstein, toomuchpete, Afroblanco
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Anyone dissing Charlie Watts doesn't understand drumming...or music, for that matter. CW is anything but a "drum machine".
We say a song has "groove" when the beat is just a hair ahead, or a hair behind where we expect it to be...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jonmc
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"1st link
Ctrl + F "zander"
not even in the top 100. bah!
See, trip and a half...that's how you do sarcasm." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by trip and a half
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Whenever I read Yiddishisms, they sound in my head like they're being read by Jackie Mason." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lord_wolf, DU
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I was on his side until he decided to throw in the ethnic slur about the drunken Irish plasterer." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by noway
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If you come up with a way to measure intelligence that isn't affected at all by cultural factors, then you can look for your genetic race/intelligence link.
Even then though, what possible benefit could be gained from such a study? I understand the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yort
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Taste is entirely subjective, and nobody gets to tell anybody else that their taste is "wrong". The barista coffee clerk did exactly that. If someone likes espresso on ice, that's their prerogative. Same goes for anyone who likes single..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Sys Rq, Monochrome, kryptondog, flickroad, Snyder, peacheater, Hicksu, jonmc, aeschenkarnos, blueberry, Blazecock Pileon, DevilsAdvocate, Seamus, pyrex, Divine_Wino
2 months ago
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"I have a friend who used to be a mailman letter-carrier. He had a few coworkers who would routinely take their day's allottment of mail, shove it in their locker, and go home for the day or hit the golf course or whatever. The next day they'd take..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by limeonaire, zippy
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Don't worry. As long as they don't cut the false-coloring budget the pictures will still look pretty." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by newmoistness
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yes...on the one side we have those who believe Prozac and its ilk are overprescribed crutches for people who can't handle reality. On the other are those who believe their own diagnosed depression makes them such experts on the subject that they can..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Human Flesh
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"For instance, I had a regular routine as a kid every time I heard the "Uten Lieben Louten Loben" sound at the beginning of Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages." (I can't remember what it was, though...)
I had the same thing. For me the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, lizzicide, marble, uncleozzy
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Is it art?
Is it music?
I'd say the two answers are the same, and equally defensible." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Tlogmer
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, if you subscribe to the notion that government power derives from consent of the governed then it's direct responsibility, not guilt by association. Of course the same metric applies to any other country which has committed atrocities. If the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Sangermaine, arto, ornate insect
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I always thought of it as a fairly laid back, "live and let live" community. Instead I've discovered that the lot of you are an unusually priggish and judgmental bunch, eager to dispense ad hominem personal attacks on the basis of mere..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If art is to be defined as anything the 'artist' says it is, then art has lost all meaning and cultural relevance, since all six billion+ of us can just declare anything we're doing at any time as 'art'.
If everything is art then nothing is art...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sriracha
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Once in a while firefox doesn't update for me even after several hours but for the most part, it works as described if I truly come back in a few hours.
posted by mathowie at 2:17 PM on May 2 [+] [!]
You...go away?...for hours at a time?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MrMustard
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"If he's a Kerouac fan take him to Vesuvio and City Lights." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kjs4
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Abortion, like many rights issues, is a weighing of one party's interests against another's. Your right to enjoy a movie trumps my right to yell "fire" in the theatre. My right to swing my fist is denied when your nose is in its path.
For..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pointilist, roll truck roll, Dreama
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This will indeed spark derious debate.
Not about abortion though...more likely it will be used as ammunition to oppose public funding of art." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by bunnytricks, Koko, MythMaker
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Some days I think MetaFilter exists just so keyboard jockeys can exercise their smug sense of superiority over others." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Asparagirl
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"About 4 billion people on Earth would be angry and appalled at the money you spent last weekend, too.
What's your point?" [
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favorited 12 times, recently by exlotuseater, Kwantsar, hoverboards don't work on water, cr_joe, Tehanu, zippy, mdn, Dave Faris, Alvy Ampersand, Inspector.Gadget, Krrrlson, nasreddin
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I cringe every time the Hicks 'advertising' bit gets referenced here. Aside from being hypocritical (Was the show at which he said it advertised? Did they charge for tickets?), it's simply not funny...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Tube, drjimmy11
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Bjork's thought on Tibet are as important to me as Lindsay Lohan's." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bokane
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The "Close Your Account" feature is Bad for MetaFilter, and I wish it would disappear.
It would just reappear a day later as Close Your Account 2...." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by moss, Richard Daly, gaspode, shinynewnick, shmegegge, loiseau, languagehat, Dormant Gorilla, Effigy2000, OmieWise
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A basic law of economics is that something has value if it can help you, directly or indirectly, achieve your top-tier needs of food, shelter, warmth, and sex. In the current economy, monetary wealth works very well towards those ends. I fail to see..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
7 months ago
